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Books and More for Children and Teens

One of my favorite book award lists has been announced:  The Jane Addams Children's Book Awards that go to books that "effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all reaces as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence." 

This year's winners are:

Delivering Justince: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights by Jim Haskins.

Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America by Karen Blumenthal.

Poems to Dream Together by Francisco X. Alarcon.

Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell.

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